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my thoughts on star wars: my older brother was born in 1977, i was born in 1980, and my little brother came in 1983, the same years the star wars movies came out. we watched the 3 originals countless times growing up and had the lunchboxes, toys, backpacks, halloween costumes, pajamas, etc. it was fun to pretend to be our heroes from the movies and go on adventures and wonder what kind of awesome adventures the “real” luke, han & chewie had after the movies ended. 30 years later, disney buys star wars and announces a new trilogy starring our old heroes. great! this will be so cool! i go see the force awakens, and find out han solo was a deadbeat dad and has gone back to being a lowlife smuggler even when a new evil power is out terrorizing the galaxy again. he dies, and leia ignores chewie. there’s another easily defeated death star. ok, i guess i can get past all that stuff i didn’t like. looks like this new star wars is still going to be overall pretty good. seeing the falcon zooming around again was extremely cool. i like the new characters so far, i like the look of kylo ren. the last jedi comes out. i see it opening night. luke skywalker tosses his lightsaber over his shoulder. what the hell. he’s a grumpy hermit. he trashed his xwing. he ditched his friends, his family, and even his droids. he’s a jerk to this nice girl wanting to learn about the force. he tried to kill his nephew because he thought maybe he might turn evil!? what the freakin crap is this!? i hate this! they have ruined his character! i would be able to get past all the other ridiculous garbage in this movie such as the moronic phone call between hux and poe, the amateur green screen mary poppins in space, chewie the now useless pet dog eating a cgi owl, pod racing horses on a planet with only human looking aliens, a fake salt covered hoth planet...agggh so much crap in one film! oh yeah they also find time to kill off admiral akbar for no reason, and not kill off leia even though carrie fischer was already dead, and got rid of kylo rens helmet, so he can look weaker. and phasma! ha i forgot how useless she was in both movies! oh man what a flaming pile of garbage. and luke just dissapears while sitting on a rock! boooooooooo!

March 30, 2018. This is a date that will forever be remembered. I can get a little emotional at times. As an adult, there are a few instances when I've shed a tear. I cried when my son was born. I cried again a year later when my daughter was born. I cried tears of joy when my beloved Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl 31 after three decades of mediocrity, and again when they won Super Bowl 45. The last time I cried was two years ago this April when my Mom passed away. March 30, 2018. Today is another day that I've sobbed like a baby. Upon waking up for work, I checked my phone like I always do. Waiting for me was a PayPal notification. A large one. I checked my Bricklink account, and it appears that some blessed soul has decided that they needed some Steam Rollers in their life. Yes, some Steam Rollers. All of them. 27 to be exact. Gone. Purchased by an unknown person. A risk taker. A gambler. A guardian angel, perhaps? I began this saga with over 50 of those Steam Rollers. I'd sell one here, one there through multiple platforms, slowly chipping away at that number. I whittled it down to 27. Now I have 0. They are gone. The purchase price was just a shade over $1k. I'll make a few bucks on each one after the usual fees and shipping, but that's not the point in this circumstance. The nightmare is finally over. March 30, 2018 is my Independance Day.

Lawd that black vip card program is a scam of the year. no triple points this year during the event (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ turdsome BB8 Promo.

That was a great scene...right after Luke and Leia teamed up with Rey and all three of them used lightsabers and force powers to fight off those force-sensitive Knights of Ren.

I liked when Luke piloted his Xwing one last time as Han piloted the Falcon.

Here's an idea, Luke takes the lightsabre, looks at it, looks at Rey, and then says "let's get to work" just as this kicks in and we get an old school training montage and however much time you need to pass, passes.

Bought on BrickLink: 40290 60 Years of the LEGO Brick, $37.24 Shipped, did not want to spend $125 to get this free set. 5005358 Minifigure Factory, $21.48 Shipped, did not want to spend $75 to get this free set. In my mind I saved $140 on things I do not really need from the Lego Store or SAH by buying these sets for ~ $60 separately and not need needing to spending $200 to get them otherwise.

I feel this Black Card VIP program is similar to the Last Jedi. Sounded good until we saw the actual implementation. Lego took a page out of Rian Johnsonson's playbook and trolled everyone.

pffft speak for yourself. I'm just waiting to get my hands on this one and all will be good...

Wal-Mart....finds a way. Sent from my VS995 using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

I’m just behind the times

When I first saw the movie, the scene when she gets blown out into space had a pretty good emotional impact. I remember thinking , "this is how she goes?!?!", because they did discuss after her death that nothing really needed to change and the story still worked. I thought that they really took a chance by killing her so suddenly. Then they completely undercut the impact of that scene with the Mary Poppins thing.

Not to be disrespectful to Carrie Fischer, but the Mary Poppins scene should have never happened and she should have just died when thrown into space. Let's face it, Harrison Ford/Han Solo was always the best of the bunch and when he died, my interest in watching the older characters diminished. I enjoyed Luke's last battle and really could care less about Leia. Time to move on to the new characters in my opinion.

How is that a shitty thing to say? He simply stated they had time to fix (Id use the word address) the Leia situation. I didn't read anything else into it. I'm, not sure how you did. Another thing... Whether you enjoyed the film or not, Did anyone think the Mary Poppins scene was... awesome? Good? Totally plausible? Needed to be kept in? Didn't need to be adjusted?

sold 2 series 18 policemen for $33 each and 27 ultimate batmobile polybags for $200. got the polys last week at tru. a few weeks ago i found 9 of them at a different tru and the cashier was hassling me about buying them all. this was about 2 days before they officially announced they were closing all stores. i sold those in lots of 3 for $28 each pretty quickly. when i found these 27 the other day i planned on selling them the same way, in lots of 3, but i figured i’d try out a huge lot first to see if it would sell. buyer is in singapore.

Winner of the Microbuild contest at Brickset: But there a many many submissions, and they are all pretty cool! Here is the Flickr album with many of the submissions: https://www.flickr.com/groups/3959224@N23/pool/

I don't know how folks make the little people with the symbols like that, but I seriously lol'd in my office when I saw that one. But seriously, I'm calling Lego about this if there ends up being nothing for card holders. (I'm still laughing btw)

but it wasn't until Han said "Together again." and Luke responded with "Wouldn't miss it." that I got really choked up.

I heard he has a 6 pack.

Brought back a lot of fond memories.

Overproduction and lame characters and ships that kids don't give a crap about.

I really liked that long mourning scene Luke and Leia had during Han's funeral too..very touching.

Ive been doing great with Star Wars and super heroes, which is my main focus. It's all about waiting for the good discount. These are iconic characters for the most part and will always be somewhat popular. And there's always another Timmy joining the fandom every day whose eyes light up when they see sets from a few years ago that they must have.

The TRU I go to has sets from 40-75% off. Most are cleaned out, but managed to grab these today. Will probably take a while for your stores to go from 5% to 50%.

Local tru, last 5 days, Lego technic bucket wheel excavator @ 40% off, how many should I buy @ $168?

Thanks for posting. I'm glad it made it all the way to Canada!

Walmart Clearance: Fire Mech, Creator Turbo Track Racer, Snow White and Batman Juniors and another Series 18 Policeman.

Found a box that looked full at Walmart. Tried the 3rd from the back on the left... and

Final $150 Death Star arrived at Target. A little worse for wear, but whatever.

Didn't even realize this was out. Saw the posts yesterday so decided to go to Target after work, wasn't expecting much. Found a mostly full box of series 18, was sorta hidden, not in the lego area. But thought the policeman was already gone, as I saw signs of smooshing. But luckily, 3rd for back on left side there was a policeman. Bought 8 others as I smooshed the whole box while I was there... some folks looked at me funny. Thanks for the heads up guys.

One of the scenes that annoyed me the most was right at the start. Let's make a prank call to howdy doody during the middle of an intense battle. The same guy who blew up 3 planets in the movie before. Perfect time for inappropriate humor.

It easily could have been, reach out for a cable with the force, draw yourself back in. Force grab Ackbar and bring him to safety. We didn't get anything near that cool.

Really? The Empire Strikes Back gave me a completely "incomplete" feeling. I never expected any of these first two movies to satisfy all questions and concerns.

I was mainly responding to that post of yours. Rian had complete control of movie 8. Anything good or bad needed to be attributed to Rian. Consequently, Rian gets the praises from peoplewho like the movie, on the other hand, Rian gets the blame from people who hate/dislike the movie . I think that is fair.

Definitely. Opened the box yesterday and all the bags are there. This is the one which we will build.?

Rian had complete freedom to change things in TLJ, he was not bound strictly by TFA. Blaming JJ for forcing anything on Rian/TLJ is just silly. So, whatever good or bad things in TLJ is Rian's responsibility

I liked the Force Awakens, it had seriously stupid plot holes, but in general I liked the new characters and Han was great as always. I hated TLJ and it wasn't because of plotholes or doing exactly what fans didn't want or any of those things, it was just a really bad movie and I don't mean a bad Star Wars movie, it was just a bad movie full stop. Poor story, poor characters and worse than poor characters, Johnson managed to make us care less about characters who we either loved for generations or had been pleasantly surprised to like after TFA. The biggest crime though in these sequels lies at the feet of Disney and Lucasfilm, TFA and TLJ might as well not be in the same universe. They should have had the storyline for the 3 movies set in stone before filming ever began on the first one and if they had been smart they'd have done a LOTRs and filmed all three back to back.

My single biggest complaint is that whoever decided to completely butcher Poe Dameron's character in TLJ should be taken out back and kicked in the head. How can you take the 'hero' of TFA and make him a completely untrusted loose cannon in TLJ? That makes no sense.... not only did they not tell him about the escape plan because the purple haired woman decided she didn't trust him (except that she's Leia's buddy from years ago and Leia trusted Poe more than any of the other rebel pilots) but there are thousands of people evacuating and he doesn't notice or figure it out? GMAFB. It's inconsistencies like this that kill TLJ for me (Poe was my biggest peeve, but there are a pile more)... It was Star Wars, there was lots to enjoy, but tell a consistent story or GTFO and go direct some crappy made-for-TV movies.

On a side note, is there any advantage to ship to store from Target.com? Are they less likely to come destroyed? I need to replace items...

Then I am looking forward to the next UCS ISD

Target.com is currently selling the Death Star 75159 for $140, Assembly Square 10255 for $80, and a number of other sets for crazy discounts!!! https://www.target.com/p/lego-174-creator-expert-assembly-square-10255/-/A-52092917 $80 https://www.target.com/p/lego-174-star-wars-153-death-star-153-75159/-/A-51295932 $140 https://www.target.com/p/lego--174--boost-creative-toolbox-17101/-/A-52105144 $60 https://www.target.com/p/lego--174--architecture-united-states-capitol-building-21030/-/A-50636142 $50

Sometimes my wife does the prep work, and I do all the cooking. Of course, this is only when we are using a slow cooker (but I do need to turn it on, and remember to plug it in).

Tell the full story, missing an important piece here: Giggled while whispering "sucker" under her breath and said they "would reveal double points again" in May.

Did I offend someone here? This must be some kind of trolling. It's just too unreal. Background: New/Sealed set listed with that thumb-punch/perforated semi-circle opening. I've had a dozen of this set, same weight, thoroughly inspected. My listing pictures are of the actual set, every angle/side and focus on any imperfections. Potential Buyer: "Hi could you send me photos with what's in the box please. I just want to make sure it's not empty" What I think: WHAT??? That's insane. What I reply: "If it adds any assurance, this set has no tape seals, only one perforated area, so it's more obvious it has not been tampered with. I honestly would not want to tear open a new/sealed set without being guaranteed it would be purchased. Otherwise, it would have to be relisted as Used or Open Box and lose value. I hope that's understandable. Thanks." Potential Buyer: "Alright so can you take a photo of the tape" What I think: "Seriously? I just said it has no tape." What I reply: "Hello again. I have attached three pictures focusing on the box's only real opening. Hope this helps! Thanks." (Sample of several extra pics taken): Potential Buyer: "Dude it's open" What I think: "This must be a joke as it's beyond comical. Good luck dealing with other sellers." What I reply: "This must be a joke as it's beyond comical. Good luck dealing with other sellers." *Added to block list*

Congrats! Profit is profit ... keep it rolling!

Sold my last Dragon Sanctuary (41178) FBA for $340, buyin was $43.

Let´s face it, if all valued customers were the sharpest knives in the set, we´d be struggling to sell anything. We rely a lot on misinformed, rich, lazy, capricious or high/drunk people to do business.

Another one ! 1 x 21020 Trevi Fountain for 100 euros (65 euros profit, after 1 year hold) Got a few left and raised the price as they are going fast, perfect little investment as the set is easy to shipp, low buy in and great ROI.

Town Hall, Grand Emporium, Fire Brigade and Pet Shop in 1 set. All NIB, for € 1.150,- in total. Local pick up from 'Marktplaats', so no fees. Buy in was €450,-.